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October 10, 2005
I've been working on a number of personal projects in addition to Startup Hints, my website to help people starting up their own businesses. A little online advertising and research and some integration things. I'm back to my typical working ...
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September 06, 2005
I've been to about 7 or 8 interviews in the past few weeks and the smart one has called me back for a second interview. The others, well obviously they aren't smart because they haven't snatched me up. I'm a ...
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September 01, 2005
After going through the hassle with the assholes known as UPS over them damaging my monitor, I received a letter today from their insurance company denying my claim. Their reasoning was "improper packaging", but I'll tell you what, out of ...
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August 23, 2005
As I mentioned in an earlier entry I attended the RIT tech Job Fair. So, I get this call the other day on my answering machine from one of the temp agencies "call us back and ask for anyone from ...
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August 21, 2005
After running around all morning gathering all the men together, we hit a hotel where the tuxes were waiting. We threw them on and then I had to swing over and grab the girls to head out to the location ...
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August 17, 2005
One of the fun things in my life is moving across the country without having a job awaiting me. It's such a risk taking thing to do and I'm a risky kind of guy. I went to the Rochester Institute ...
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August 13, 2005
Oh the joys of getting your cable installed, or not getting your cable installed as the case may be. Apparently setting up an appointment with a cable company isn't enough. They require you to sit around all week awaiting their ...
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August 11, 2005
In an apparent tragic series of events someone at UPS took joy in throwing my 60 LBS monitor around and cracked the hell out of the lower corner of the casing. I have no idea whether it works because I ...
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August 06, 2005
Well we made it to New York in one piece after our 12 day journey across the US. Man, this country is huge. We added 4,850 miles to the car as we took a southern route through Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, ...
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July 21, 2005
I've been packing, working and trying to close out things before my impending doom move. I'd like to especially thank Mike Pechar of Interested-Participant who has saved my ass by contributing to keep things fresh here while I've been generating ...
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June 26, 2005
I just felt an earthquake here in Sacramento. It felt like my chair rocked to the side and then back again. I can't find anything at usgs.gov yet, but it wasn't that large here. Just a little sway. With all ...
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June 19, 2005
My lack of volume in posting is due to work, work, work. You don't work, you don't eat. In the meantime enjoy this picture of some wacky Japanese guys. ...
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June 08, 2005
I was just notified by Mark Williams at DemBloggers that Diggers Realm showed up on CNN's "Inside the Blogs" with Abbi Tatton. It was covered for the story posted by guest poster Mike Pechar of Interested Participant on the ...
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May 23, 2005
Between selling all my possessions for the upcoming move, packing, exercise and my daughters band performance I've gotten a little behind and haven't had a chance to blog -- or even go on the computer for that matter. I'll jump ...
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May 17, 2005
It was 8:30 PM and I was furious. It was getting dark out and my daughter wasn't home yet. The planning of her punishment in my head was interrupted by the phone ringing. I answered it and found out my ...
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May 16, 2005
My kids class went on a field trip to the Sacramento Capitol today and I went along. It was an interesting trip and a tour guide walked us around explaining everything. Who knows if Arnold was there or not, ...
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May 02, 2005
I'll be taking a jaunt up to Seattle today for a potential opportunity and therefore I'm handing the controls over to my guest bloggers for the day. ...
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April 28, 2005
I'm moving to the Rochester area and will be there probably around July 1, 2005 if anyone in the Rochester area has a position open doing some coding or management let me know. For more about me you can read ...
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April 23, 2005
Sheesh. I've been so exhausted lately with our planned move in June. From selling off unwanted stuff to packing up stuff that we have in storage, it has really made me lazy towards the end of the day. On top ...
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April 14, 2005
I think I'm done with California. Other than the weather this state holds nothing for me. I've recently been planning a cross country jaunt all the way back to Rochester, New York from here in Sacramento, California, not a small ...
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April 07, 2005
I've been really busy offline and really lazy online. I'll be posting soon, I just haven't had the time. ...
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April 04, 2005
My cable modem bit the big one on Saturday. It totally died with no power or anything. Comcast was closed on Sunday and I finally got over there this morning to get a new one. I'll be posting later on ...
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March 27, 2005
I just boiled some eggs because I'm a slacking father. Hell, the kids probably won't even have time to color them. We'll just be artistic this year and use the powerful and emotional color of white, just to be different. ...
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March 21, 2005
I haven't written an entry on this and this will probably be my only entry on it. I'm going to post a couple comments I made at other sites which basically sums up my take on it. Comment made at ...
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March 17, 2005
I started exercising back in November/December sometime and since then have kept with it. I've made it a habit to go at least 3 times a week and more if I feel like it. I started lifting as well. I ...
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March 12, 2005
5 years ago the NASDAQ hit it's all time high of 5048.62. I lived through that period in Santa Clara, which is in the center of the Silicon Valley and the heart of the dot-com boom. I lived a few ...
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March 10, 2005
I've had a cable modem for years and years and have always been happy with Comcast and ATT Broadband. Over the past few weeks though my modem drops a ridiculous amount of times each day. It used to be that ...
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March 03, 2005
I spent all night working on my taxes trying to squeeze every dollar out of what those greedy money stealers get from me so that I can plan my impending bankruptcy better (j/k). I'm not an accountant though so www.turbotax.com ...
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February 07, 2005
I watched the pilot episode of Star Trek: Enterprise and I think that is the only episode I have watched. I quickly was bored with it as I have been with every Star Trek series since Star Trek: The Next ...
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January 04, 2005
The battery in my car has needing changing for awhile. It seems that it was not holding a charge very well anymore and sometimes overnight it would be "cross your fingers" time when you turned the key the next day ...
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December 27, 2004
... and so does Darleen over at Darleen's Place. Go read her latest piece A Kitty's Tale. It's well worth your time, even if you're one of those evil dog lovers. ...
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December 25, 2004
Merry Christmas to everyone -- except the ACLU and it's members. Now time for some glazed ham and mashed potatoes. Peace to all and to all a good night. ...
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December 23, 2004
Been tied up in holiday stuff for the past few days. Shopping, bill paying, present wrapping, exercising, drinking eggnog to put the weight back on and other holiday related crap. I'll be back around soon. I would use that old ...
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December 17, 2004
I was interviewed by KXTV Sacramento last night. There seems to be a mass of burglaries going on in our immediate area, 5 so far and one sexual assault. They were covering the story and caught up with me while ...
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December 15, 2004
I've been exercising for about two weeks now. I never really did much exercising in my youth as I did so naturally by riding a bike everywhere, playing sports and running around like a little maniac. About the time I ...
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December 14, 2004
OK, David seems to have started this thing, so I'll play along. Three names you go by: Digger Daddy Hon Three screennames you have: Digger Digger3001 dirty digger Three things you like about yourself: Intelligence Optimism Entreprenuerial Tendancies Three things ...
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December 02, 2004
Everyone has their comfort food. Some people however don't seem to understand anything about comfort foods. Mine, like Michele's over at A Small Victory, is Mac and Cheese and Mashed Potatoes. She likens it to "eating memories" and it's true. ...
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November 30, 2004
Sorry, I've been off trying to get my house in order over the holidays and the last few days. So posting has been a little lighter than usual. Plus I have some asshole spamming the hell out of my comments, ...
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November 27, 2004
I took this "What leader are you?" personality test I found over at SortaPundit who found it via UnaBrewer. Here's my results. If you take it and have a blog, trackback to me so I can see your results. What ...
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November 15, 2004
A lot of people ask me? "So Digger, what does your latest wallpaper look like?" Well, ok people don't ask me that, but I made a new one today after I couldn't find anything suitable. I've decided to make it ...
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November 12, 2004
So I was sitting here paying some bills and decided to go deposit some of my hard earned cash from selling drugs in the 'hood (ok that's a lie, don't freeze my accounts!). I got all my stuff together, slapped ...
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November 02, 2004
The polling place was easy to find as I had been there for some other votes in the past, including last years recall election. It was a nice brisk day, probably about 60F I headed to my polling place after ...
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October 29, 2004
They had the annual Halloween parade this morning at my kids school and I brought along the trusty digital camera to capture the wacky event. (thumbnail images below will pop up in a new window) The kids assembled on the ...
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October 26, 2004
I'm really getting fed up of Kerry's lies and the consequences of them. Just a few weeks ago my fridge was fine. It was humming along keeping my milk and hotdogs cool. Then he had to step up and ...
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October 19, 2004
I was so horrified when I looked in the sink and saw one of the mugs my best friend gave me was broken. There were two of them and they were matching (sorta like my buddy and me). The most ...
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October 18, 2004
If you have never had Ho-Ho's and hot chocolate you don't know what you're missing! You take the delicate, thinly chocolate covered Ho-Ho and dip it into a frothy cup of hot chocolate. As you pull it away there's a ...
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October 13, 2004
// Got into some programmer zone and went at it for a long time, but I'm back and here's a little code for you. if(you_like_Dr_Suess) { Blackfive has a great article on life lessons from Dr. Suess. Profound. } for(Newsweek; ...
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October 04, 2004
jour·ney·man n. 1. One who has fully served an apprenticeship in a trade or craft and is a qualified worker in another's employ. 2. An experienced and competent but undistinguished worker In tales of yore a journeyman is the wandering ...
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September 09, 2004
WTF!! Who's bombing New York City? The Russians? That was all I could think of when my wife's niece, who was staying with us temporarily, came flying out of the bedroom. I had been awake all night, as usual, working ...
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August 29, 2004
Ahh trips to the park with the kids, you have to love them. We enjoy going there and we take a long walk of about a mile down this jogging path to get there. We've seen lots of nature like ...
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August 12, 2004
A lot of people asked me if I actually went to the Taj Mahal in India for that picture I had in my last entry. Ok, so a lot of people haven't asked me that, I just wanted an excuse ...
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August 09, 2004
Finally looking at another jaunt to SoCal soon to bask my firm, toned body on the Redondo beaches. Me and my girls made a trip down there last year and had a blast and it is something that has been ...
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July 19, 2004
I found out yesterday that I got a parking ticket. "Big deal" you say. Well I also missed a court date for the parking ticket. "You lazy bastard!" you say. That's probably the same thing I would say to someone ...
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June 11, 2004
I'm not sure if I'm alone in the way I mentally torture myself. I'm sure some psychologist would have something to say about the way I mentally torture myself constantly. Looking at the accomplishments and genius of Leonardo Da Vinci ...
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Ahh...the look on the teachers face... ...
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June 08, 2004
Finally finished up that contract. It's in review now. After all these years of having released websites that are being viewed by millions of users there's still that little knot in the stomach when you give something the greenlight. It's ...
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May 25, 2004
Man, I'm freakin bored out of my mind. I have programmers block or something. No motivation whatsoever to do a damn thing. I spent the morning listening to Howard Stern and playing a game of Age of Empires 2. Then ...
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May 18, 2004
I've been working on a fairly complex contract that has entered its second phase. It involves the design and development of an online forms processing system with a front end that will be used at every college in California. While ...
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April 01, 2004
Boo Hoo. Troy the only one on The Apprentice without a college degree was fired. He went against a Harvard Grad with an MBA who worked for Goldman Sachs. Now I'm not one to just knock people because they do ...
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March 24, 2004
God, I'm so boring I have nothing to say. Still working on some contracts, Red Cyclone stuff, home chores and a website for a new venture me and Tom Shouf are working on. It has to do with stories and ...
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May 10, 2003
Finally got around to setting up this website with a decent layout. I'm going to be moving all my old stuff from maelstrom.net over to this website and setting up shop here. As with everything it'll probably take awhile and ...
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